Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon on 29 June 1900. A pilot for the Aéropostale, in 1927 he ran the Cape Juby stopover in the Sahara, then, from 1929 to 1931, the Aeroposta Argentina. In 1935, during a raid from Paris to Saigon, he crashed in the Libyan desert and survived four days without water. Settled in the United States after the defeat of 1940, he returned to service in reconnaissance aviation in 1943. He disappeared on 31 July 1944.

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• TaleThe Little PrinceLe Petit PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943Literature